1778: American forces entered Philadelphia as the British withdrew during the…
HISTORY LESSON
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1775: The Revolutionary War Battle of Bunker Hill resulted in a costly victory…
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1858: Accepting the Illinois Republican Party’s nomination for the U.S. Senate…
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1215: England’s King John placed his seal on Magna Carta (“the Great Charter…
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1775: The Continental Army, forerunner of the United States Army, was created…
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1942: During World War II, a four-man Nazi sabotage team arrived by submarine…
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1963: Civil rights leader Medgar Evers, 37, was shot and killed outside his…
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1770: Captain James Cook, commander of the British ship Endeavour, “discovered…
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1854: The U.S. Naval Academy held its first graduation ceremony.
1963:…
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1954: During the Senate Army-McCarthy hearings, Army special counsel Joseph N.…
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1789: In an address to the U.S. House of Representatives, James Madison…
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1776: Richard Henry Lee of Virginia offered a resolution to the Continental…
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1844: The Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) was founded in London.
1889…
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1950: The U.S. Supreme Court, in Henderson v. United States, struck down…
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1812: The U.S. House of Representatives passed its first war declaration,…
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1888: The poem “Casey at the Bat” by Ernest Lawrence Thayer was first published…
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1886: President Grover Cleveland, 49, became the first president to get married…
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1813: The mortally wounded commander of the USS Chesapeake, Capt. James…
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1889: More than 2,200 people in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, died when the South…
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1431: Joan of Arc, condemned as a heretic, was burned at the stake in Rouen,…
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1914: The Canadian ocean liner RMS Empress of Ireland sank in the St. Lawrence…
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1830: President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act, which forced…
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1896: 255 people were killed when a devastating F4 tornado struck St. Louis,…
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1864: President Abraham Lincoln signed a measure creating the Montana Territory…
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1787: The Constitutional Convention began at the Pennsylvania State House (…
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1844: Samuel F.B. Morse transmitted the message “What hath God wrought” from…
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1915: Italy declared war on Austria-Hungary, aligning with the Triple Entente…
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1939: The foreign ministers of Germany and Italy, Joachim von Ribbentrop and…
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1924: 14-year-old Bobby Franks was murdered in a “thrill killing” carried out…
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1862: President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, which was intended to…